Ethics and Aesthetics There’s an ethical paradox. Collecting local files can protect access and memory but may skirt legal and economic structures meant to support artists. Ocean’s own maneuver—using platform exclusivity and later surprising listeners—stages a critique of the industry even as it plays within it. Listeners’ archival impulses respond to both the aesthetic richness of the work and to anxieties about access. The interplay questions whether ownership is a right of the audience or a revenue model for creators.
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